On the iHeart Far South Coast podcast this week we chat with Forensic Human Identification Specialist and former Bega High Student, Dr Jodie Ward, about Missing Persons and the case of 5-year-old Narooma girl, Renee Aitken, who hasn’t been seen in 40 years and how cases like Renee’s impact on families.
Listen to this week’s episode of the iHeart Far South Coast below.
“When your loved one dies, you know what happened to them. You’re able to have a funeral or some other commemorative process to celebrate their life,” Dr Ward said.
“A family of a missing person doesn’t know whether their loved one is still alive and living happily somewhere. They don’t know whether they’re deceased and lying somewhere and no one’s ever found them. They don’t know if they’re sitting on a shelf in a mortuary somewhere and it isn’t their turn yet to be forensically identified. So it’s that not knowing, it’s kind of like you’re in limbo.”
Dr Ward was also at Bega High school during the time of the Bega School Girl Murders and she talks about how that impacted the community.
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